Alexa in Chinese continues to grow

The amount of positive feedback we've received about the Chinese version of the Alexa website has been amazing, sometimes even humbling. We have been listening to what you have to say, and are working hard to add new features to the cn.alexa.com to make it as useful as possible. For example, today we released a new "Top Sites" tab to cn.alexa.com, which includes the following sections.

• Top Sites on the web
  
• Top Chinese Language Sites
• Top Sites by country
• Top Sites by category

Just like in the Site Info pages, the website descriptions are given in Chinese when available. Also, while the Top Sites by Category defaults to "Top > World > Chinese Simplified", the entire directory of categories is available.

To make it easier for you to give us feedback, we've also added a place on the cn.alexa.com front page where you can email us your suggestions, either in English or Chinese. Have an idea of what we can do to make Alexa better? Let us know!

自从Alexa中文官方网站开设以来，我们得到众多振奋人心的反馈。对此，我们深受 鼓舞，同时也深表感激。我们一直在认真听取您的意见，加紧为cn.alexa.com添加新 的功能，使它能更好地为您服务。例如，今天我们在cn.alexa.com上发布了新的“顶 级网站”标签，它包括以下内容

• 全球顶级网站
• 中文顶级网站
• 按国家/地区排名的顶级网站
• 按类别排名的顶级网站

在添加新功能的同时，我们也非常注重网页内容的中文化。 例如在网站信息页面 中，我们尽量采用中文的网站描述。同样，按类别排名的顶级网站模块的默认类别是 简体中文“Top > World > Chinese Simplified”。我们也同时提供完整的类别目 录。

为了让您更方便和我们联系，我们在cn.alexa.com主页上开通了用户反馈功能。您可 以将您的中文或英文的意见和建议Email给我们。如果您有任何关于建设和提高Alexa 中文官方网站的想法，请让我们了解!

Webmasters, Own Your Site!

The Alexa help forums have been great for letting webmasters provide us with ideas for new services, as well as ways to improve existing ones. One such user-driven improvement is in the way webmasters interact with their Alexa data, including easy to use tools for editing your site's contact information and the ability for webmasters to respond directly to reviews of their site. In addition to being an engineer at Alexa I am also the webmaster of a small, personal site, and now like webmasters everywhere I can now take control of my site's information on Alexa and "Own My Site."

Edit Your Site Data

Editing the contact information for your site on Alexa has never been easier. Either starting from the "Contact Info" tab on your site's Site Information page, or on the "For Site Owners" tab near the top of the page, select the Self-service tools. You will be prompted to log, and you can use either an Alexa or your Facebook account. There is no advantage to having one type of account over another, use whichever is more convenient.

Once you have chosen the site you want to edit, you will need to verify that you are authorized to do so. You can become authorized either by adding a file to the root directory of your site, or adding a meta tag to your homepage. The methods work equally well, the former is a good choice if you have direct access to your web hosting, the latter if you do not. Once verified, editing your information is a simple as filling out and submitting a form. Easy! Your changes will appear on the Alexa website within 48 hours.

But what if takes divine intervention to get your company's homepage edited? Or what if you no longer own a website, and you want to remove your contact information completely? These situations do come up, so we offer a "manual verification" process to have an Alexa content editor change your information for you. As you might imagine this process is slow, up to 2 weeks, and you will have to go through the process again if you want to make more changes. So we highly recommend you use the automated system.

Respond to Reviews

Once you verify that you are authorized to edit a site, you will also be able to respond to reviews people have written about it. If you are logged in, any review for a site for which you are authorized will give you the option to "respond." You can respond once to each review, and responses fall under the same review guidelines the reviews themselves. Responses to reviews are attributed to the site, not your login, so your personal information remains that way. If you think a review was unfair, or want to clarify something, or even just want to thank the reviewer, you now can.

The Future

These are just a few of the improvements we have planned to allow you to own your content on Alexa. If you have ideas that you would like to share, please visit our help forums and share! We're listening.

Alexa, Now in Chinese

To better serve our Chinese users, today we are releasing a beta Chinese language version of the Alexa website, cn.alexa.com. You can browse the traffic stats, contact information, related links, clickstream data, and demographics of websites you are interested in, all in Chinese. At the moment only the 'Site Info' pages are available, but we will be rolling out more features soon. And if you have any ideas on how we can make the Chinese version of our website better, stop by our help forums and let us know.

In toolbar reviews

Since adding the ability to review websites back to Alexa.com, the response has been phenomenal. Reviews are a great way to share your experiences with a site, both good and bad, with others across the web. Now, with the latest release of the Alexa Toolbar, you can do in-toolbar reviews of websites.


Previously with the toolbar, if you decided you wanted to review a website from the toolbar, you clicked the five stars rating button. The button would send you to the Alexa website, where you could read the reviews people have written as well as write one of your own. This works fine, but what if you want to write a review without leaving the site you are on? Well, now you can do that too.

In the current version of the toolbar you will see a little clipboard icon next to the five star rating button. If you click the clipboard and are logged in, either with an Alexa account or through Facebook Connect, a window will appear and you will be able to write a review right there. If you are not logged in, or need to register for an account, then you will be prompted to do so before being able to write a review. The Alexa Toolbar makes reviewing websites all that much easier.